Your Competitive Intelligence team is predicting that the Baldwin Company will invest in adding capacity to their Bit product this year. Assume Baldwin's product Bit invests in increasing its capacity by 10% this year. Because of this new information, your company anticipates all other products in the Core segment will increase their capacity by the same amount. How much can the industry produce in the Core segment the next year? Consider only products primarily in the Core segment last year. Ignore current inventories. Figures in thousands (000).

Select : 1

A. 8,149

B. 7,258

C. 5,098

D. 8,472

E. 9,449

F. 14,076

G. 7,172